Because when the time came for stars like Gina Rodriguez, Amy Adams and Julianne Moore to step up to the podium, not a moment was wasted (it's only a matter of time before that music plays you off the stage, after all). And we couldn't help but notice this year happened to be a particularly inspiring one, with messages of self-acceptance and women's empowerment taking center stage. Here, the quotes that will be on our lips for years to come.

"I have a 4-and-a-half-year-old and I'm so grateful to have all the women in this room. You speak to her so loudly. She watches everything, and she sees everything and I'm just so, so grateful for all of you women in this room who have such a lovely, beautiful voice." — Amy Adams

"I want to thank a couple of wonderfully complicated women in my life... [including] my daughters who will one day be great women... and to my husband, who is a lover of complicated women. Obviously." — Maggie Gyllenhaal

"When Lisa Genova wrote this book, she told me that no one wanted to make it into a movie, because no one wanted to see a movie about a middle-aged woman. So I want to thank the people who actually made the movie." — Julianne Moore

"George Clooney married Amal Almuddin this year. Amal is a human rights lawyer who worked on the Enron case, was an adviser to Kofi Annan regarding Syria and was selected for a three-person UN commission investigating rules of war violations in the Gaza Strip. So tonight, her husband is getting a lifetime achievement award." — Tina Fey